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Continue reading →: How to fail better at writing (Part 1)
A few scenarios of failure Rupa is sixteen years old. Rupa has a lot of passion for life. Rupa thinks she is a writer. Rupa keeps a pocket book handy at all times in case her inspirations escape from the leaky recesses of her brain and she fails to catch…
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Continue reading →: Explore your writing persona
I write well. Therefore I must be a writer. No, that’s not enough. Those of us who may still be young enough to think about our career approach towards writing and bold enough to believe that we can make a livelihood out of it (or at least a life by…
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Continue reading →: On dumbness
As I noted yesterday, I’m not feeling particularly clever these days. Or as Americans would say, feeling particularly smart. This was a source of great discomfort at first. Particularly since I’m here in the States now, where everything is so smart. You have smart phones. You have smart washing machines.…
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Continue reading →: Coming up with something clever to say
I’ve been trying to come up with something clever to say for a while. Something that will make readers either go “Wow! Why didn’t I think of that!” or “I’ve always thought of that but Bottledworder said it first. Shucks! ” In case you didn’t figure it out yet, I’ve…
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Continue reading →: Daylight Saving Time ends today
The clock on the dresser said 8 am. I had woken up. I was just about to move myself out of bed (and perhaps even make myself a cup of tea). I was almost at the brink of thinking up some ideas to write on. Maybe even make breakfast. I…
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Continue reading →: How Hurricane Sandy passed through our town
Sandy came and went and left a lot of devastation in its wake. We were more fortunate than many in my locality in Jersey City, New Jersey. We mostly observed the storm from the windows with almost no interruption in power or any other discomfort. Many of my friends don’t…
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Continue reading →: My posts will resume soon
Dear Readers, I, like so many others, have been affected by hurricane Sandy although I was touched much, much more lightly than most. I just got back my internet connection (at least it seems so at the moment). I’ll resume my blog posts as soon as I can. Thanks for…
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Continue reading →: For readers who comment on my posts
Dear Readers: I love reading your comments. I read each and every one of them and enjoy thinking about them. Sometimes I revisit your comments multiple times and think about the new perspective you’ve brought to my idea in the blog post. Since the primary audience for your comments is…
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Continue reading →: The long and the short of blogs
It’s a rare day when you can sit down for a nice long blog. To read. More so, to write.
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Continue reading →: Ten Secrets: Writers, Books, Good and Bad
Points to ponder ♠1. Good girls and good boys rarely grow up to become good writers. ♠2. The good in good person and the good in good book is almost never the same thing.
I’m, Bottledworder. Always inhabiting the half-streets, catching paradoxes, thinking in greys, trapping the world in words in my bottle.
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